19. In some ways, what we're witnessing is the break-up of the Eisenhower consensus on religion, a long lasting Cold War relic.
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20. In an American defining itself against Godless communism, the civic religion was the goodness of religion, regardless of content.
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21. Eisenhower: "Our government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is."
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22. Under Eisenhower you could be anything (except an atheist): a Unitarian, a reform Jew, a Catholic, a Mormon, etc.
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23. Eisnehower's civic religion of all-religion-is-good undergone lone collapse, first due to end of Cold War & now cultural wars.
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24. With culture wars, religious issues gained partisan salience, which meant increasingly defining other party (Dems) as Godless.
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25. Richard John Neuhaus was a crucial figure in this new hyper-partisan politicized religiosity, as I discuss here:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/richard-john-neuhaus-a-life-in-the-public-square-is-a-rewarding-biography-of-an-influential-thinker/article22989723/ …
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26. Neuhaus' attempt to recast Christianity to make it as close as possible to Republican agenda was offensive not just on political terms
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27. To straight-jacket any religious tradition into a partisan orthodoxy involves tremendous cheapening & simplifying. A loss.
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28. Cheapening & simplifying. Think of what we lose if we agree with Neuhaus or
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29. To jettison liberal Christianity is to jettison much of the black church, Unitarianism, Emerson, Dickens, Trollope, Emily Dickenson...
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30. @bendueholm Melville. Baldwin. Not that the jettisoners are too concerned about losing them
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31. Anyways, key take away is even for unbelievers, the great religious traditions are too rich to be conflated with crude tribal politics
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